Thoughts – Page 2 – Past the Surface

What We have Done with God?

History has shown mankind is like their creator in taking an idea, materials, and putting them together creating a solid functional self-sustaining powered invention. Mankind has taken, is taking, and will take things in the future from this world forming a creation from their own minds because we are His children.

Have you ever been told to ‘put yourself in someone else’s shoes or situation‘ to try to see their side of the story, view, or perspective? This was my parent’s way of hinting to me to be slower on judging someone until you have all the facts. Have you heard the saying to ‘look before you leap‘? This was also a hint to make sure of what you are getting ready to jump into with both feet, which implies all of your weight and reputation behind it. I will admit I did not do this well in the beginning, but with time and a few hard knocks in life the practicing became automatic. When you imagine yourself in another person’s situation wondering what you would do in their place and the conclusion you would make defines the ‘What You Have Done’ with them.

Interesting thought came to me a long time ago about putting myself in other people’s situations and looking before leaping that I was being equal to other areas in life. I was giving people chances of understanding even when they did not show the same courtesy to me. I found I was leaving someone out of this viewing things from their side. I was not trying to see from God’s point of view. I was not trying to put myself into His situation to see His side of the story. This opened up a whole new world of things. It is enlightening when you take the time to try to see from different angles. You gain a perspective with a more complete, wholesome, and rounded understanding. I started my journey with “What We Have Done with God” to try to see from His point of view and He gave me something far beyond than what I originally thought. God actually allows us to take Him and make our own decisions without stopping us. Are we judging God fairly? Are we taking His stuff and using them in the right way? Freedom of choice is stamped on all His earthly stuff He gave us.

BEGINNING

First, before we put ourselves in God’s so-to-speak shoes we must have an idea about Him just like we would for another person we are trying to understand. There are three main ingredients that have come to know define God as God. He is present everywhere at the same time (Omnipresent), all-knowing (Omniscient), and all-powerful (Omnipotent). He took areas of His Presences and made some things to be solid from His Spirit. He took His Knowledge and made the solid forms to have functions and purpose for their existence. He took His Power and gave the solid forms the ability to fulfill their functions. All three ingredients are in all creation His presences (solid forms, tangible), knowledge (function and purpose), and power (sustaining ability for purpose). John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. If we are going to put ourselves in God’s so-to-speak shoes to see from His side then we have to go with what we can see and touch. We are more on this side of the tangible things than understanding the things intangible.

This may be difficult to wrap our minds around, but as an example there was emptiness, darkness with no light in the beginning. God imagining the sun shining in the darkness of space is literally already there before He spoke it into existence. God said, “Let there be light” and the birth of the sun appeared in space with His solidness, His function, and His power. We have come to know the sun in outer space sends its warming light to us and the earth keeping us alive. The plan inside God’s Spirit was for the sun to become solid with a function and the power to do its job. The earth was made solid with a function and the power to do its job. The water, the dirt, the rocks, the grass, the plants, and the trees were made solid in His Spirit with the function of His Knowledge and His Power for them to sustain their purpose. All of these things have a bond beneath them the human eye cannot see. Scientist has found what God allowed them to find in molecules with atoms bonded together exchanging back and forth the solid things we see on the surface.

When we walk on dirt and grass we are walking on the material God turned from His Spirit into a created powered together solid functioning existence. It would not be there if it were not for God. His Spirit making things solid, functional, and the power to do its purpose is the key to “What We Have Done with God“.

All of creation is made of God’s everywhere existence, all-knowing set functional design, and His all-powerful presence in the physical output purpose. God’s Word presence, knowledge, and power were in solid form in the sun, moon, stars, grass, trees, fruits, animals, and in mankind. All these things are only solid back then and today because God put Himself into them with His presence, His knowledge, and His power. For an example if God extracted Himself totally from a rock taking away His Presence (physical/material form), Knowledge (reason/plan of existence), and Power (bonding molecules/atoms) the rock would lose its power to stay together, its knowledge of planned existence, and its solid presence back into nothingness. Wow, this can be mind-blowing, but this is an attempt to step into God’s world for us to see from His visible/invisible side.

THE SCALES

Now, let us slowly get into the good/evil side of creation and God being in all things. We are still trying to step over inside the so-to-speak shoes of God. Good/Evil and Light/Darkness are born from choices. All of creation at one time was purely good with no evil in them. God is freedom of choices. His choice for all of us was good and outside of that was up to the creation’s choices. God being good was the only active element in the beginning. The opposite of God was there, but it was not active. The angels and mankind would have to activate evil from their own choosing (What We Have Done with God). In God’s shoes He created angels with the intelligence of the freedom to choose good or evil. God created us in His image and likeness which automatically comes with the freedom of choice of good or evil. God made angels and mankind solid material from His Presence, put the planned functionality of His Knowledge upon them, and made them alive by His Power with the independent intelligence of freedom of choice compared to other creations. He gave us and angel’s solid form, functionality, and power to self exist, but a mind-set to choose freely whatever we desire. Being made of God’s material, functionality, and power to exist is separate from the choices we make from within the bodies He gave us. “What We Have Done with God” is taken His material and did with them as we pleased.

Now, looking back with the mindset of putting ourselves in God’s so-to-speak shoes is it God’s fault the angel Lucifer became the devil? Freedom of choice is having your own control over your destiny. The opposite of freedom of choice would be like a blade of grass with only a set function and no ability to choose otherwise. Today, we would think of a robot (not a TV robot) programmed with set parameters with no ability to detour from that set path of right or wrong. The angel Lucifer known as the morning star, the son of the dawn had a position high above all other angels. He was covered with every precious stone with settings and mountings made of gold on the day he was created. He was an anointed and ordained guardian cherub on the holy mount of God blameless in his ways from the day he was created until he made his choice. At this time the opposite of God (evil, disease, death, hell, and the grave) was locked away and not free to do as it pleases. Lucifer took the material, functionality, and power to exist of what God gave him looking upon himself with pride in his heart of his beautiful precious stones, settings and mounts of gold wanting more than what he already was (Ezek. 28:13-17). He was not the poorest of angels that rebelled out of complaint, but the richest of angels. He took his freedom of choice and said ‘I will‘ take heaven, put a throng above God, sit there over everyone, be above the tops of the clouds, and make myself like the Most High – God (Is. 14:12-14). What did Lucifer do with what God gave him? He took his solid body made of God’s presence, the functionality of God’s knowledge, and the abilities of God’s power to trade it with the choice of his heart and mind for the opposite of God to become God. What have we done with God?

When God made us He took His idea of a creation from His Knowledge to be made with a physical appearance of what His likeness and His image would look like in solid form. He took the dirt of the earth forming a physical body placing the function upon that body as like one of His children above all other creations giving it power by its own living spirit born from His breath. We have His solidness made in His image with the likeness of functionality of His Knowledge, and the living power of His breath. He gave complete responsibility and control over all the earth into our hands like as He has control over all things because we are His children.

Again, the freedom to choose would not exist unless there was an opposite of God. “What did We Do with God” in the Garden of Eden? Everything was good in the world, but one tree having the knowledge of good and evil. The opposite of God was once again trapped in one tree with the warning passed onto Adam and Eve what would happen in choosing to eat of that tree. Eve on the freedom of her choice reached out with her hand took the forbidden fruit raising it up to her mouth, took a bite, and then handed it to Adam who made the same choice as Eve. They took God’s goodness and released the opposite of God (evil, disease, death, hell, and the grave) onto themselves and the rest of the world. It is “What We Have Done with God” that has determined the good or evil outcomes. People want freedom and God has allowed those choices to be made freely.

If God is in all material can He be used for evil being a good God? All material in the beginning was only good. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is upon everything in the earth and the angels that freely chose the opposite of God. The lion did not eat the lamb until after what Adam and Eve did with God. Cain their first son did not know man’s death until he made the choice to kill his brother. It is not God Himself doing the evil, but “What We Have Done with God” has given us in solid form, functionality, and power.

If God is in all physical material then does that mean He is in the knife that was used to kill someone? God is in all material, but it is what we have done with Him – that material. Man took solid, programmed functioned, held together by His power stones/rocks of the earth and formed spears, knives, and swords. Man under the freedom of choice created the knife. The knife within itself (the material) is not evil, but what a person does with it chooses the side of good and evil. A knife in a skillful doctor could save a life and the same knife in the hands of someone evil could take a life. God is in the material that makes up the knife. The material is still God and not bad within itself, but the action of our usage of the knife made it to bad on us. It is “What We Have Done with God” and not what God has done with us. He gave us everything we needed to be like Him, but our choice started the struggle to good like Him once again.

From the very beginning standing in God’s shoes He inserted a way we (mankind) could be saved after we failed Him and ourselves. We were not totally made of eternal material like the angels, but we have a side of us from the earth. The angels are totally made of eternal material, which means their choices are final. Our material half spirit substance and half earth substance God could pass the death penalty onto the earth side of us through the death of the man Jesus Christ applying his blood to our debt washing us clean and opening the in filling of the fire power of God’s Spirit inside with our spirit purifying for a life in eternity with God. All this is still under the choice of “What We Have Done with God“. We have once again a choice of good or evil because of what God did with Himself for our sake.

It is what we have done with God that determines the deciding factor of our good or bad upon our spirit. The responsibility is upon the driver of that material and not the material itself. It is not the material of the bullet that is evil, but the usage from the driver of that material determines the usage to be evil or good. Could it be people kill people? The bullet made of God’s particle material shaped into a bullet inside a gun. It is God’s material that makes up our body with given permission to us to drive it as we see fit. It is God’s earth that we take and make things from it with given permission to use it as we see fit. It is what we have done with our body (finger on the trigger), done with the gun (metals put together). The driver inside the body killed the other driver corrupting the spirit and not the material. The material remains the programmed function because it was the usage that put corruption or sin on the user? The earth will not be sent to heaven or hell for its actions, but the angels and people will be judged according to “What We Have Done with God“.

The guns, knives, swords, bombs, drugs, etc…are materials we have put together and used it for the purpose of good or evil. We are like our Father in that we have a mindset to think of ways to create using what is around us. The good or evil falls upon the shoulders of our inward spirit that is inside our bodies. It was our action that brought death and disease into this world, not God. If you are thinking in a blaming way, ‘but He allowed it‘ would be a ‘yes, He did‘ because we are not robots programmed without the freedom of choice. He made us His children free to choose like Him. It was not the material that is evil because all things are made of Him in the original state of goodness. This is why God after creating things would say, it is good. Our action brought the spirit of evil, death, and disease upon the usage of the material. We gave the devil control to use the material of this world for his bidding. The spirit of the lion was corrupted to eat the lamb, but not in the original physical state of the lion. The lion now has the evil nature upon its material that was made of God. It was never meant to kill. We were never meant to kill. Our nakedness was never meant to be divided into shame. Our material bodies and our spirit being were pure through and through.

Everything in this life is born with the potential acts of evil, disease, and death. In the beginning evil was contained in one tree and one group of fallen angels. Everywhere else was purity, peace, kindness, joy, and innocent love with no need or necessity of any laws, except for one law of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This one law kept evil locked in one place. With the freedom of choice Adam and Eve released and expanded the territory of death, hell, and the grave to the entire world. We are all coated with the potential of horrible sexual immoralities, diverse impurities and over indulgence; worship of false idols and witch crafts; all sorts of hatred, lovers of discord, destructive jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, always disagreeing, closed off from others, not happy with ourselves; drunkards, orgies, and anything else you can think of. Being born with the potential of evil on all things explains why our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but what is upon it from the rulers, authorities, the powers of darkness, and the spiritual forces of evil (Eph. 6:12) we released from the one locked in place of the knowledge of good and evil.

IT IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITH GOD IN THE MATERIAL THINGS HE GAVE US IN THIS WORLD. He is in the physical and in the spiritual. We got separated from Him in both the physical and the spiritual. Death had to be paid by one of them. God was willing to sacrifice the physical, but not our spirit. He came to save our spirit and not the world. The world and our old flesh will return to nothingness. He will give us a new body and a new world free from the control of evil. There will be no sorrow there. It all comes back to what we have done with what God gave us that puts the goodness or evil upon it. It is not God’s fault. The material does nothing of itself we have to animate it to make it good or evil. If you have made it this far I say, “God Bless You” for enduring the length of this writing. I have so much that He gives me that it is difficult to compress it into few words.

What Have I Done with You God and What You Have Given Me? You are very special in His eyes. Don’t throw yourself away or waste the things He has given you. Your life is important not to Him only, but the potential brothers and sisters lost around you. Hear His calling voice in the wind of change for your free will choice. Here am I Lord take this body and the driver within to be made into a pleasing vessel inside and out.

Love Deficiency

“…Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Mtt. 4:4. Jesus answer to the devil about turning stones into bread.

You may be thinking what does “Love Deficiency” have to do with man not living by bread alone, but also man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Love is defined in the dictionary as an intense feeling of deep affection, romantic, or sexual attachment. Deficiency is defined in the dictionary as a lack, a shortage, a failing, or a shortcoming. Love is a bundle of several things in one and deficiency is basically a lacking. We all can see things in our lives that would match the definition of “Love Deficiency” in various areas. What is the cure for the “Love Deficiency” in your life?

“…Man shall not live on bread alone…” shows us “…bread…” as the food substance that feeds our physical bodies to live in this world . The word “…alone…” reveals that this is only a single aspect to our living existence. We physically eat bread to satisfy our physical hunger on a daily basis. We feed our bodies everyday with physical food and without feeding ourselves everyday we will begin to slowly physically die. This is totally about our physical side. We have another side to us invisible to the human eye.

We have two basic sides to us – physical and spiritual. We see everyday how well people are feeding themselves physically from the small to the large. What we do not see under our noses and on others is the spiritual size of small to large. This may show you how you are trying to feed your spiritual side with your physical flesh. This may also show you people around you trying to feed their spiritual hunger through their flesh. Our flesh will never totally satisfy the hunger and thirst of our eternal spirit. The reason is because we are trying to feed an eternal substance (our spirit eternal side) with temporary passing away substance (our flesh dying side). This is where “Love Deficiency” comes into play with our spirit. All the physical pleasures, joys, and loves of this life fall short in completing our spirit. Let us continue down this path exploring our lives and what we have observed in others.

You may have past or present memories of your mom filling your life with hugs and kisses. You may have past or present memories of your dad can chasing you and tickling you. You may have past or present memories of your brother, sister, or both picking on you. You may have past or present memories of your friend laughing and crying with you. You may have past or present memories of your boyfriend or girlfriend holding your hand, sharing a kiss, and a holding of each other’s arms. You may have past or present memories of your teacher or coach patting you on the back for a job well done. You may have past or present memories of your professor can shaking your hand for being the caliber student that you are. You may have past or present memories of your wife or husband being intimate with you satisfying all your needs. You may have past or present memories of your children hugging your neck. You may have past or present memories of your boss and co-workers smiling when they see you. You may have past or present memories of your workers under your leadership bragging on your managing skills. You may have past or present memories of your fan club giving you faces of adoration. You may have past or present memories of your pets giving you that seemingly unwavering attention. You may have past or present memories of your music moving during emotional times.

AFFECTION

All the above was a quick passage of times possibly in your life. If you want to slow down on one thing from above and focus on that memory that would be good because everything from the list of memories is on the “…bread alone…” side of this life. Your parent’s and families deep affection fed your physical side. The hug, the kiss on the forehead or cheek, and the pat on the head or back touched you physically from a temporary source. Your parents and family do not have the spiritual power to completely satisfy your spiritual hunger. Yes, they can imprint, influence, and train your spirit, but not enough to totally satisfy your spirit hunger. This is about “Love Deficiency” hidden inside of us and others. There is a deception from our flesh that all we need is a good mother, father, brother, sister, other family members, boyfriend/girlfriend, and spouse to support us with the happiness we long for. Some people are starving below their flesh for a happy family with the thinking that this is the cure for their “Love Deficiency“. They will fantasize of that dream family, boyfriend/girlfriend, or spouse, but the lacking and emptiness is still there in their heart.

ROMANTIC

A hunger for affection different from a families affection enters into our hearts. We all start seeking a boyfriend/girlfriend, or a best friend to share things in a way we don’t want to share with our family. This is also on the “…bread alone…” side of our flesh. We go after that person with an obsession of that we’ve got to have them in our life to satisfy that heart pumping desire. This is another deception from the side of our flesh. Only something that is spirit can feed spirit. Flesh can only feed flesh with temporary satisfaction impacting the spirit side. You can even marry or live with someone thinking this will complete your life, but only to find all the affection, romantic, and sexual contact still does not satisfy the emptiness of your spirit.

It does not matter how happy or sad you are in the love relationship the “Love Deficiency” will always be there no matter how hard you try or fantasize. This is the “…bread alone…” physical side of our flesh. Our spirit side must be fed by spirit. Our spirit is made in God’s image and God’s likeness. It cannot be fed and truly happy until it is fed by God. This is our other side hidden from us by our flesh and the devil. We can go our entire earthly life time filling it up with everything we see in this world and never completely satisfy the spirit. Flooding our lives with physical highs from alcohol, drugs, sports, movies, novels, adventures, sexual exploits, fantasizes, and hobbies are all from the temporary sources and not the unseen source of God.

We are suffering from a “Love Deficiency” that is killing us inside out because the outside cannot become one with the inside. Our outside is temporary and is daily getting closer to death, but our inside is eternal getting closer to eternal life. The only thing that can merge with our spirit with complete satisfaction is eating the spiritual bread of life spoken to our spirit from God. When you pray, read God’s word, sing to Him, worship Him and something connects in your spirit with a joyous feeling and inward glow of glory it is His Spirit merging with your spirit in a communion of oneness the world could never give you. You cannot feed your family, boyfriend/girlfriend, wife, husband, son, daughter, or friends this feeding of the soul because we are on the side of the “…bread alone…” and God is on the side of spoken spirit word.

No matter how strong your love is towards another person you cannot enter into their spirit. You can shower them with your love and influence, but only God can move inside with their spirit bringing complete satisfaction. The devil tries to enter into a person’s body, not a completing of the spirit, but more of a domination of control of that spirit in bondage. God’s word feeds our spirit a liberation of truth with complete satisfaction of spiritual thirst and hunger. It is spirit to spirit and not flesh to spirit. The bread of this world and everything else in it is for the flesh. God’s Spirit inside of us in this world feeds our spirit the translation of truths of eternal life.

Our “Love Deficiency” is the hunger and thirst of our soul. Our attempts to feed it will always fall short and fail satisfying its eternal longing with the temporary side of this life. We need to add to our daily bread the prayer life of fellowship with God satisfy the growling noise in our spiritual stomachs. We need to equalize or better our efforts that we put into our physical side into the our spiritual side for one will pass away and the other will not. I know you know you have the “Love Deficiency” inside of you. I know I have the “Love Deficiency“, but the difference is knowing the cure and what you do about it. This is why when I pray for someone I know God can go places inside of them that I could never go and His word can reach things inside of them my words never could.

Set your goals along side of feeding your physical body daily with feeding your spirit to know God and the Jesus man side of God allowing His wisdom that is pure, peaceable, gentle and easy to give to others full of mercy, good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy satisfy your spirit (Jn. 17:3, Ja. 3:17). The “Love Deficiency” will go away with the balance feeding of your spirit and body until the day you depart from your body passing on your spirit from this life to His.

Two Gardens

STAGE 1

On a canvas I see two gardens drawn side by side. The garden on one side has several full and healthy looking trees with one tree standing out from the rest in a different unique way. This garden has a visitor passing through the trees with the sound of walking. The visitor brings, a faithfulness of fellowship, a breeze of peace, a flowing gentleness, a light of joy, a kind patience, and a warmth of love. You can feel the liberty and the freedom in this garden. The garden on the other side next to this one on the canvas is far different. This garden has darkness about it. You can barely see from one tree to the next. The visitor that comes to this garden brings an air of deception, twisting words of lies, a stabbing feeling of hatred, a destruction of jealousy, stained with impurity, a plan of selfishness, a rage of revenge, a discord of envy, and a blind drunkenness of self empowerment.

The one garden on the one side of the canvas is what one would imagine seeing God visiting man (First Adam) in the beginning of time at the garden of Eden before the fall. The other garden is what one would imagine seeing the devil visiting the man (Jesus, second Adam) the night they came to take him to his death.

STAGE 2

The one garden held a trial for the breaking of the only one law to be followed. The visitor of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and gentleness now stood before them as the jury, the judge, and the executioner. The judge with hurt, pain, and sorrow had to pass the unchangeable sentence of death. This judge put into motion the death penalty, but by the power in him he inserted inside of man a day of redeeming life to return to his garden and his fellowship.

The garden on the opposite side of the page had a corrupt jury, a bias judge that would not listen to truth, had false witnesses to deceive others, officers of the court to inflict unnecessary pain, and executioners with no remorse. The judge of this other garden passed the sentence of being whipped with leather straps of nails and glass under the cloak showing mercy. This judge allowed the physical abuse of slapping, pulling the hairs from his face, driving a thick crown of thorns on his head, and a mocking cloak soaked with his dried blood. This judge took a tree from his garden, cut it down, removed all branches, carving a tall vertical wooden beam and a shorter horizontal wooden beam. This judge took the beaten, bleeding body and drove one nail through both feet into the tall vertical tree beam. This judge took the short tree beam driving one nail through one hand on one side and another one nail through the other hand on the other side. This judge raised the cross tree beams into a hole to stand up the innocent man between heaven and earth for all to watch him slowly die. This judge of this garden put into motion the death penalty and by the power in him inserted in the side of the man a spear piercing his heart for confirmation that he was dead and he had taken the life of the man to hell and the grave.

STAGE 3

Deep down in the bowels of the dark garden of evil, a tiny light appears faintly in the distance. The tiny light seems to be changing in size and brightness leaving a path behind it as it walks. The evil judge, jury, and executioner seem to have lost all signs of power to their own garden of darkness. The light comes closer glowing with life in the form of a man. The innocent man who was put to death three days ago was the light growing brighter the closer it came making a path of light showing the way to leave the garden of death.

The innocent man was the Visitor from the other garden inside of him with all his love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and now with the payment of blood for our debt to the penalty of death. The man was put to death in the body, but the Visitor inside him made him alive in the Spirit. Both births of the natural and the spirit took place inside the death garden. After being made alive the innocent man went around in the garden that became a prison of darkness and told the imprisoned spirits if they would follow him he would lead them back to the garden of life (1 Peter 3:18, 19; Eph. 4:8).

TWO GARDENS

The first garden man had with God visiting us with all His light of life and atmosphere of eternal love. The second garden the devil tricked man into believing it was better than the other only to find ourselves imprisoned in darkness, hell, and the grave. The Visitor of the first garden inserted Himself into our blood line waiting for the day inside the second garden of darkness to be born. He, Jesus, was born into our world of darkness with no sin in his life. The rulers in this garden of darkness schemed to kill him removing him from changing their world of lies. His death paid for our sins and his life made a path of escape for us to follow back into the first garden of light and fellowship with God restoring us to our rightful home.

What spiritual garden do you find yourself standing in? Have you found the lighted path from the garden of darkness we all were born into? Have you asked Him who knows the way out to be your guide? Do you want to leave this garden of lies back into the garden of truth? Jesus is the spirit Visitor of the first garden. He was born, he died, and He came back to life to create a path if we want to escape this death, hell, and the grave garden of the devil. To follow this path out of darkness is to be sorry of our sinful dark ways that we have adopted in this garden, walk down into the water of a burial type baptism in Jesus name fully immersed for the purpose of washing away our sins (his blood of forgiveness is in his name), and continue on this path receiving His Spirit inside of us to guide us the rest of the way into the garden of eternal life.

Start your journey out of the garden of darkness and you will wake up one day inside the garden of Light. We are only eternally saved when we leave this world being led by His Spirit walking through the valley of the shadows of death of this world’s garden into His marvelous Light of eternal life garden.

Meant to be Alone

Do you ever feel you were meant to be alone in this life? Have you found yourself with another person, you and your spouse, you and four others, you and your family, you and your classmates, you and a crowd, you and your co-workers, you and your church, you and your team, you and no matter how many are around you – you are still alone? Did you try from middle school, to high school, to college, in the work world, in the church world, in the sports world, join clubs to make friends or at least come away with one friend? Have you stood there talking to others or hearing others talk and the emptiness of being alone is still present? Have you gone through the trial and errors of testing with more talking, less talking, more smiling, less smiling, showing more friendliness, being what you think others want you to be, purchasing things to appear as one of them, change your hair, change your clothes, change the way you laugh, change the words you speak, making yourself more available, adapting in any way you think it is possible, and doing anything within your power to be accepted and come away with at least one friend?

Even God desired to have someone. Before He created man God had no one like Himself. The angels and other creations were not like God. When God created man He created man (Adam) after His likeness and His image. God only had Adam that was close to his likeness. God had no one else to fellowship in the likeness of His own Spirit, except Adam. Then Adam in turn did not have anyone like him to fellowship matching his spirit. God was far above Adam’s spiritual level. Adam had no one that was like him. God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Ge. 2:18). God brought all the animals to Adam to see what he would name them. At the end of naming the animals Adam and God saw no suitable helper was found among them (Ge. 2:20). God created a woman from Adam’s rib that would match him in the attempt to fix the being alone.

This was easy for Adam to find that someone to take away the loneliness. We today have almost a near impossible job to find someone to walk on their own carrying themselves with mannerisms like a kindred spirit matching ours to fill the loneliness with their fellowship in a oneness with us. People today call that a “soul mate”. Growing up in this day and time you may find yourself chasing the neighborhood kids wanting to play with them having them to run away. At school today you may hope someone in the classroom, gym class, clubs, and sports would accept you. You enter into high school meeting all kinds of users/players using anyone and everyone for their personal desires. In desiring to have that loneliness taken away you even tolerate the users in school. College or the work force you find even greater actors than Hollywood acting out parts for selfish ambitions and you are nothing but a stepping stone to them. It seems you are always on the outside looking in and even if you are on the inside you still feel the outside lonely feeling.

You go on with your life choosing to chase a career. In the chase you may even find someone else who has a secretive need unknown to you to have someone. You may even marry them and have a relationship with that person for decades going through the stages of having children, paying debts, and providing for the daily needs and still can be alone. Your spouse can be on a totally different page than you and you are on the farthest page from them. You may even find yourself being more of a caretaker than the true definition of oneness marriage. You can outwardly appear to be in the marriage doing all the things expected, but inwardly you can be starving to death for fellowship matching your spirit.

There are two kinds of loneliness. There is a physical loneliness and a spiritual loneliness. The physical loneliness does not necessarily only mean the absence of intimacy, but it can also include no physical fellowship (seeing a face showing reactions, hands…). The spiritual loneliness can be the absence of someone who can perceive and understand where your words are coming from and have the ability to challenge or add to your thoughts. Fellowship matching your spirit is where the loneliness will always be until you find another kindred spirit. Physical gratification can go a long way, but the truth of reality you are still lonely inside. Only the addiction of your body has been temporarily answered. All fleshly bodies change over time breaking down no matter how hard you fight the aging process, but the long-lasting effect comes from their spirit to yours. The physical body has the advantage of finding tons of other bodies starving for like manner loneliness, but the spiritual side has a harder task before it in finding matching spirits. Removing the curse of loneliness totally is having both physical and spiritual oneness.

God made Adam fall asleep and took a bone from his ribs. God took Adam’s rib bone and created another person in Adam’s likeness and image with matching parts for a oneness relationship. This was before sin and lust was in the eyes of mankind (Ge.2:25). Adam looked at her with the same naming eye sight he had for all the animals and spoke her place by his side and among all creation. He said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” (Ge. 2:23). Adam had the first ministry of being God’s first-born and Eve had the ministry of the first-born from Adam. This event of woman for man became the reason and explanation of why a man leaves his father and mother to be united with his wife as one flesh (Ge. 2:24). This was locked in at the beginning of creation. It was God, Adam, and Eve oneness of fellowship. God had the oneness spirit fellowship with them both. Adam and Eve had the spiritual and physical oneness fellowship with each other and God. Loneliness came into being after mankind sinned against God creating a world of separation of all types.

In our present day the separation in its various forms has caused people to be players, users, and deceiving facades (outward appearances). Today is different finding that person, that friend, or friends in general. There is so much deception out there. It is extremely difficult to filter and find the ones you feel safe to open up and fellowship. The world is full of liars (tares) among the true (wheat) playing the acting game for all kinds of reasons. The sifting through them is a task that takes great powers of patience, intelligence, and God-given discernment.

The childhood, young adult, and adulthood in this day of con artists, liars, deceivers, and the fake facades may have driven you to hatred, distrust, and thick walls to all people, but there is a solution to the “Meant to be Alone” curse. As a child I had a father and a mother, an older sister, and an older brother. I count them to be a blessing because of the people I have met in life that had it far worse than I did, but the curse of “Meant to be Alone” was upon them as it was me. It was no fault of my family whatsoever for the “Meant to be Alone” curse on my life. I did not know we were poor. My father and mother worked really hard to make my life as rich as they could, but the true richness was their characteristics they lived before me. My father worked three jobs for our family that I was told later. I did not know why he was gone so much. My older sister is about twelve years older than me and had her life to live. My brother is about nine years older than me and he had his life to live. My childhood was basically a few years of full family memories changing quickly to an only child. The “Meant to be Alone” curse is not based on if you had a family or your financial status in life. It is based upon finding that friend, spouse, or partner that truly connects with you from childhood to adulthood.

You may have the thick walls up guarding your heart, mind, and soul. I had my thick walls up guarding my heart, mind, and soul. The thing about having all these defensive devices in place you find yourself looking around inside hearing, feeling the empty halls of your heart, and the silence of your thoughts only. I did everything I could growing up to link with a best friend doing things I should not have done to gain their acceptance. I became bitter, cold, hateful, vengeful, and a user/player with darkness as my friend, but this is not the friend I sought after. It was the friend that came to me after the con artists, liars, deceivers; the outward facades had destroyed my faith in mankind.

Darkness could not satisfy that loneliness. After serving revenge on others with the lies, deceptions, and outward facades I did not find any satisfaction to chase away the loneliness. The hard questions began to seep through my thick walls like black thick syrup of ‘why should I exist‘ and ‘for what purpose or reason?’ It was during this crucial time sitting in furthest seat in the highest balcony in the dim-lit back pew a voice dropped over into my walls and into my throne room of heart, mind, and soul saying, “you had tried everything else why not try me?” I started going over a variety of things I had tried and coming to the conclusion I agreed that I will give you a try.

The “Meant to be Alone” curse can be taken away. I started my infant steps with God. I treated Him as I would anyone else. I will try to get to know Him. I started reading His Word/Bible from the point of view of questions I had about life. I started looking up hatred, jealousy, bitterness, dating, marriage, friendship, loneliness, anger, and the list goes on. I have uploaded pictures that I drew before trying God and after trying God. The pictures have hidden messages of emotions I was facing at the time. As I kept talking with Him and reading His opinions I woke up one day realizing I had found the friend that will never leave me. He will never back stab me, lie to me, use me, con me, or forsake me. He became my best friend and roommate behind my thick walls. I will never be alone again spiritually. Yes, I still have my walls up because mankind has not changed, but my fleshly house has a new occupant that will always lead me and guide me into all truth.

Adam was alone inside having only his living soul. Eve was alone inside having only her living soul. They had each other physically and spiritual fellowship. We are not like Adam today. We have our living soul inside, but God can move inside with us. Your body now can be the apartment with God as your roommate. It doesn’t matter if you are physically alone even in a crowd, marriage, church, school, or anything else you may think of people being there with you because spiritually you have the roommate of forever kindness, love, acceptance, friendship, saving grace. My life has never been the same since Jesus became my roommate.

All I had to do was to turn my back ( be sorry) on darkness/sin, get baptized in water baptism in the name of Jesus (applies the blood of Calvary) for the washing away of my sins (cleaning my house & spirit), and receiving His Holy Spirit inside with mine (Acts 2:38, 4). I may never have the fellowship of mankind, but I will always have the fellowship of God from this life into the next. It is joy unspeakable and full of glory beyond the brightness of our sun in space. Seek after Him and you will never be sorry or lonely ever again.

Having More Than You Know

All babies born into this world do not understand the surroundings in which they have been placed. The older ones look into their faces of purity seeing the complete emptiness of any corruption of this world in them. We tickle them to hear their free unrestricted laughter. We expose them to things to make their face light up with free joy. As the baby grows maintaining of innocence and the understanding is preserved pure. The toddler does not know the financial status of being poor, middle or rich class. They just continue their laughter, crying, and desire of attention. They don’t know boundaries to the color of their skin. They see other children and they innocently want to play.

Babies and little children don’t seem to have much to offer. They cannot add financial support daily to the family. They cannot do chores until they get older and stronger. They are completed reliant upon the older ones around them to take care of them. Image a baby or a small child you may know. When you look at them there is not much physically they can offer. They have given more to you than you know. It is not a gift you can physically touch. It is their innocent laughter you behold that sends healing inside you to your spirit. You find yourself smiling and laughing with them while it is working like a medicine (Prov. 17:22) on a tired and worn out soul. When the baby or toddler wraps its little arms around you squeezing the purity of their love. It is sending into your spirit freedom of pure love that the tainted world will never give. Babies and toddlers they give not in the physical, but in the spiritual. They do not know what they are giving you with complete understanding. They just know they want to do it. They give the same no matter the class of their home. If the house is poor, middle, or rich class the baby gives the same.

The toddler or a little child does not realize their clothes and shoes are a sign to others they are poor, middle, or rich class. They may not even realize if a neighborhood kid says, “hey, that was my shirt” that it was given to them as a pass-me-down shirt. Toddlers or a little child will not know if they ask for the last piece of meat at supper time that it was the last piece of meat in the house. Their having no knowledge of the ways of the world give more to the older ones than most would realize. The older ones see that they cannot go back and so they live a few moments in spirit with the baby, toddler, or little child. The child gives them a few moments of escape from the hardness of the adult world.

As the child grows older the discovery of differences come to light inside their innocent minds transforming slowly over to the older ones world. Their little minds are storing things with understandings pushing them forward into the reality of this world. They begin slowly leaving the innocence and start approaching the age of accountability. Their experiences and discoveries still have that unseen impact on those around them that knows them and loves them. The invisible giving of laughter, sadness, love, hate, giving, selfishness, … still seeps into the spirit of others around them.

They discover other kids who are faster/slower than them, stronger/weaker than them, nicer/meaner than them, poorer/richer than them, handsome/prettier than them, shorter/taller than them. Questions flood their minds about others, themselves, their family, the importance of life, what are they suppose to be, what good are they, and on the continue. Their mind, heart, and soul become a storage unit of love, hate, joy, sadness, peace, war, kindness, anger, goodness, evil, faithful, undependable, gentleness, roughness, self-control, out of control, sharing, selfishness, purity, impurity, clean thoughts, dirty thoughts, healthiness, drugs, players, instigators… The weight of the world rides upon the older you get like a packed mule you see in a western movie.

“Having More Than You Know” makes a person think about “Having…” as in possessing. What is it you possess? What do you have? Depending on the aged person you ask this question you will get a variety of answers. A little child may answer with “I have mommy and daddy and a brother, sister, aunt,uncle, grandma…” An older child may answer, “I have a bike, Xbox/Play Station, doll house, a dog/cat, turtle/fish, dirt bike…“. A young adult may answer, “car/truck, motorcycle, Apple/Android phone, guitar/piano, TV…“. An adult may answer with “house, boat, cabin, land, power tools, business,…“.

Adulthood is the level where people are categorized by their class of poor, middle or rich. The abilities to give are weighed by most according the class level, the resources, or who you know. People pass judgment based on the material things of this world. The importance is highly placed upon what a person accumulates to themselves.

“Having More Than You Know” is not about the clothes, shoes, bikes, guns, cars, boats, houses, land, businesses, and other physical things you can name. Your value is not based on physical possessions. You have things like a baby that is not based or valued on poor, middle, or rich class you are placed in by this world. You have heard someone say after a car accident that the vehicle can be replaced, you cannot be replaced? What makes you special in “Having More Than You Know” comes from what you were born possessing like a unique personality, way of thinking, and methods of actions.

There is no baby born into this world that God does not know about or He would not be God. No child is born into a situation God is not aware of or He would not be God. Everyone is born with a purpose or a plan.

I know you are heading down that road of thinking about bad situations of why God would allow a baby to born into that horrible atmosphere. This summons up the bad, evil, horrible, ugliness of this world. God gave us total control over all the earth – responsibility on us. We gave control over to a fallen angel giving him the power over the earth. He became mankind’s master and the earth was his to do what he wanted. The fallen angel brought death, hell, the grave, disease, evil, horrible, and ugliness upon all the earth including us – not God. Now, you’re thinking “why did God allow it?” The number one thing with God has always been the freedom of choice. He will not override freedom of choice. Every baby born into this world God has a plan for that child, but freedom of choice inside that child is up to them no matter the atmosphere they are born into even if it is at the level they have no control over their physical body. They do have control over their spirit inside their body. God said do not be afraid of those who kill the body because after that there is nothing else they can do – this is as far as they can go, but fear him who after the body has been killed has the authority to throw you into hell (Lu. 12:4, 5), which is known as the second death of eternity. It is worse upon people who harm children in God’s eyes (Mtt. 18:6, 10, 14). He can punish in a way no one else can.

Now, back to there is no baby born into this world that God does not know about or He would not be God. No child is born into a situation God is not aware of or He would not be God. Everyone is born with a purpose or a plan. Everyone has “.More Than You Know” to give than most people would realize. God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jer. 1:5). Predestination is what most people start thinking when they read this that we are all born predestinated to be evil or good and nothing can change it. This takes us back to the number one things with God is “freedom of choice”. He knew Jeremiah before he was born into this world and the expectations He had of him, but after being born into this world Jeremiah still had the choice of saying no to God. A person making the freedom of choice of saying, no to God’s purpose and plan will not stop the plan of God from going forward. Your decision decides where you will spend eternity after you die in your body of this world. Good people or bad people can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth (2 Cor. 13:8). The bad will be converted into help fulfill and the good will continue to flow with fulfilling God’s plan.

This opens more understanding to “Having More Than You Know” inside of you than you realize and others. You will help contribute to God’s plan whether you want to or not. Your choice does not affect His overall plan only you individually. This is why Solomon said in Eccl. 9:11 that the race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Remember from a baby to adulthood we store in our unit all these things of the swift, strong, wise, brilliant, and favored of the different classes of poor, middle, and rich in this world. It comes down not to your class, but using what you have inside you at the right time and with the right opportunity.

“Having More Than You Know” is all about what is inside for you to released to the world. Jeremiah had something inside given to him to release to the world if he wanted that choice. Pharaoh was born with a purpose. God knew Pharaoh’s thoughts and the intents of his heart. God knew no matter what signs, wonders, and opportunities He would show Pharaoh that Pharaoh’s choice would be against God. God took Pharaoh’s hardness and showed the world you can nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Pharaoh made the choice that God is not who He says He is and wanted to prove it, but the end result was seeing the power and mercy of God at work. The disciples were in jail for preaching Jesus is the Messiah, water baptism in Jesus name and the in-filling of the Holy Ghost. A man stood in the middle of their discussion on what to do with the disciples. The man said some time ago a person claimed to be somebody, raised up 400 hundred followers, was killed, and his followers dispersed coming to nothing. Another man after him rose up, led a band of people to revolt, was killed, and all the followers scattered. I advise to leave these men alone for if their purpose is of human origin, it will fail, but if it is from God you will not be able to stop these men. You will only find yourselves fighting against God (Acts 5:34-38). The words of this man came from inside of himself out to the ears of those who wanted death for the disciples. He “Having More Than You Know” inside his mind, heart, and soul came out to bless more people than inside that room and outside. It is not only the physical possessions you have that defines what you can give, but also what you have inside that knows no limit in God.

The older you get the more you realize the material things of this world cannot help the ones you love, and the innocents you see in the news. All the money and powers of the world cannot stop death, all diseases, and suffering. I want to call on the “Having More Than You Know” to step into the battle because you can do nothing against Him, but for Him.

A man was born lame and had to be carried everywhere. To help with the financial needs he was carried to the gate of the church. He was there everyday begging from those walking into the church. He saw Peter and John getting ready to into the church and the lame asked them for money. Peter and John stopped and faced him. The lame man must have been looking quickly at others passing for Peter and John said to him “look at us”. The lame man stopped scanning for others and looked at them expecting to get what he had always got from others going into the church. While he was locked onto their faces Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk”. You may not be rich in this world and feel helpless, but there is something you can have in your life to call upon in times of need and something will happen for the truth no matter what is against the truth. Peter taking the man by the hand helped him up and he was healed instantly (Acts 3:2-8). If you don’t have God in your life it is easy to receive Him because He wants to be in your life more than you realize.

Not everything in this life will go the way you want it to go because there is a bigger plan in place than yours, but getting inside the flow of the plan of God assures “Having More Than You Know” working inside of you irregardless of how the world judges you.